The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-25
VICTOR ~ RAND
tHrlhud opera Houses crowded "a
witness THE Presentation "t the
Move BIuN hN Local Talent.

wtho>s the presentation OF Victor
lmrand 10y LEGAL talent, in the interest
OF the Waco Light infantry company.
Tlc performance vas q success III
every sense of the term. Few anna
tcur performances iu TcXss have ever
&c ua,,cd ID. aud many Of those partici.
pGung could win lAurcls among pro
Icssonals. The plot of the story l.
tbi, Victor Duraud and Paul Dean
meet at the gaming table. Duraud
lose, almost everything while Dean is .
uniformly successful Dean then joins .
Duraud and soon wis back tor him
more than he had lost Durand, toHr-
tul Tor tIo safety of Dean, induce,
him 10 take tn train Tor Paris, in.
tcndiag .m,cu to get OIL at an into
media point. lie leaves the truiu
and iurther on Dean receives "a
blow ON the head which do
pryc- hum of his reason. AMI
/, robbed of all lac posscsscs. Dutuud
Ii arrested ut ms homr. accused OF the
Grim, convicted ON tue testimony of
az Italian organ grinder, Antonio
~porIA and sentenced to the galley
for Iir After two year, bc escapes,
changes IN, name. md father lead
and his mother dying, and under thc
ON dc plume of llclri Favart he iS
married to Ruth Vaughn the be
troiued of Paul Dean, at The time his
reason was dethrOncd. Baron de
Mersac, the real criminal, cOnceivcs u
passion tor tavau's " lie, aud having
recognized him us Durand, the cs-
capped galley slave makes. known hi.
identity and has him apprchcndcd by
the Jaw. Even Dean who has rCcON
cred his reason, is brought in and
testliles that 1t must have been Du-
rand VINO committed the deed -four
years before. DE Mcr~ac IL uun asked
10y ocptimu- Leyeru- Iuhb, n dude,
who was present at the game when 20
much money was lost and Won, and
was also ON board the cara AT the
time Of the robbery. Having
found Deans porimouic he manages
through l1yurrs wife to have the
Baron claim it ~ his own, and the
Baron having failed to keep faith
with the Italian in money matters
: hat worthy cOnics-es TO iAise weAt
Ia, aud .t-.j,. ,,,, b,,r.uJ 600
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up 10 'hc hour OF Hl' tllA',
y, course the guilty man is marched
OF toprlsun, md peace reigns again
in the once happy family. The dude
claims the hand of Violet, the Other
daughter OF John Vaughn all Of
which receives the hearty endorse
meut OF lJr. randolph the old family
physician who figures prominently ~
the play as :nau whose ycnrs nav,
taught MIN wisdom and whose ct.
forts were Nil IN the interest OF MS
friends, Dat who had II weakness Tor II
similarly weak widow, Mrs. Dudley
/ The following WIS the
CAST OF CHARACTERS;
ilg., F "a. M6...c heHIy i r,a.c
joha vauthn VII Emcy
poc.or k,ndoIr ,..,,.,..,. GEE W. Toy .nl
''p''"''S '''''' TX" u, 'o'''"" ''''''
Paul bean Martin Cloesman
ye1n Ecn llo.. f'"''I aoIp ',,,i IL
SONS. H. ''6.r a So.aryj Geo t1rcy
whites i.ln e frHklu 10.
yo.,t "'.''' .'''''' vs. lrr,'a Autchc. lar
Nr' Dudley young widow .. Miss Nlun
'arioi
't,D'"Nt'' mr.
scene Gene '% nnJ H II'v g' linn ,u..,
Ar,- Mr., Dudley Housc
Mr. Henry pichlc, "A, Duraud. was
very GOOD iAdced. MIR. Emery IL.
John Vaughn. lid cXcGcdinyN well.
nnrt TO Innrieciion. and WINS II picture
of loveiines, throughout. George
TAYLOR, Dr. Randolph WA.
fine. Mrs. Dudley. III,
widow ns prescntod bv Mis-.
.nf younV UiloUhoo1. md the VallnuI
Doctor must indeed have been hsrd
hearted had he not Welded TO hei
cborms Mr.. keIs. n. the dude, WA,
the tlvorite of the evening anC
deserved his favoriti-m iol
he certainly po.sesses "A fine order
OF histrionic ability Mis- There's
lIutchenrider. h, Violet, Ruth's ai-.